September 11, 2011

Workers
build a footpath around the vertiginous slopes of Shifou Mountain in
China

Thousands of
metres up the vertiginous slopes of Shifou Mountain in Hunan Province, China, a
team of workers, operating with hardly any safety measures, are building a
footpath

The workers are
building a plank road on the side of the mountain that, once it is finished,
will stretch for 3km (9843 ft) and be China's longest sightseeing footpath

48-year-old
Yu Ji (above) is one of the workers and he has been working on high cliffs
building such plank roads for more than 10 years. He comments: "Young people
don't want this job, as it requires them to stay deep in the mountains for
months or even years"

Yu Ji takes
charge of the most dangerous part of the project - drilling the holes to set up
pipes to support the footpath

Building a
plank road on Shifou Mountain is difficult because the cliff stands vertical at
90 degrees, without any slope or alcoves

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